New hog regs

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Originally Posted by Red Devil

Dang man, didn't mean to strike a nerve with you. As far as bashing LDWF, that's not what I was doing. I'm all about game laws. Ask anyone on this site that knows me and they can attest to that. What bothers me about the whole licensing issue for hogs is that they are a HUGE problem. Which I'm sure you already know. When you have something constantly destroying your property, food plots, feeders, gardens, crops and everything else they come in contact with. Not to mention how much they breed. I guess what I'm trying to say is why should people have to buy a license to protect their property from a nuiasance?

Makes WAY more sense now that you put it that way, and I completely agree. But it seems to me that in that case, licensing should only apply to recreational hunters/trappers, not to people trapping on their own land to protect their land. Not sure how that distinction would be made other than to say you have to own land in order to be exempt from licensing. I must say, I haven't read the hog regulations, but that would seem the logical route to me.